Combination article of furniture



1932- M. H LOUGHRIDGE ET AL 8 COMBINATION ARTICLE OF FURNITURE FiledFeb. 17, 1926 Patented Jan. 19, 1932 nurse s? A'TENT orrica MATTHEW H.LOUGHRIDGE, OF BOGGTA, NEW JERSEYJAND JOHN S. HOLLIDAY, DE-

CE'ASED, LATE OF NEW YORK, Ni Y., BY TBATRIX, OF WILKINSBURG, 1? ENNSYLJENNIE MARGARET HOLLIDAY, ADI-ETNIS VANIA COMBINATION ARTICLE orFURNITURE Application filed February 17, 1926. Serial No. 88,929.

This invention relates to an article of furniture comprising acombination lamp stand, radio loud speaker, loop antenna and a noveltype of lamp shade and has for an object to 5 provide a portable articleof furniture embodying a radio outfit and lamp stand whereby one standsupports the combined articles thereby saving space,'material and costand adding to the convenience of the user. Other objects of'theinvention and the novelty of its various features will be more fullyunderstood from the following specification and from the accompanyingdrawings, in

which, Fig. 1 is an elevation of the device complete with the lamp shadeshown in section, Fig. 2 shows the vertical part of the stand with oneside removed and showing the collapsible loop antenna, Fig. 3 is asectionof the Vertical stand with the parts collapsed, Fig. a shows insection a loud speaker horn under the canopyot the lamp shade, and Fig.5 is a detail of thejoints of the antenna arms. I

This invention as shown, comprises a floor lamp with a v vertical stemsupported on a portable base and having at the top one or more electriclamp bulbs under a shade or canopy and so arranged that it may be usedas a floor lamp. The vertical stem is provided with folding sides whichcan be expanded into the form of a rectangle and which support antennawires that may be used with any radio outfit. V hen not in use thesearms collapse and form the sides of the stem so that their purpose as anantenna support cannot readily be detected. Under the lamp shade a loudspeaker unit is provided at the top of the vertical stem which may beconnected with any radio outfit. The loud speaker may be of thediaphragm' type or of the horn type. An annular vertical p opening isprovided in the shade over the loud speaker with an inverted conicalreflector to reflect the sound from the loud speaker horizontally abovethe shade. The base of the device may be used to house a radio set orother sound producing instru ment. The entiredevice has the appearanceand dimensions of the usual form of floor lamp, occupies little spaceand is attractive in appearance. This invention is partially disclosedin our co-pending application, Serial No. 525,917, filed December 30,1921, which application was directed to the col-* lapsible antenna.

In the drawings 11 is the vertical stem, which, as indicated in Fig. 3is square in section having apair of side boards 11 and a pairofopposite sides 16 and 22 enclosing a hollow space in the stem. Thesides at right angles to 11 comprise the arms 15and 16 pivoted at 17 andthe arms 21and 22 pivoted at 23. The arm 15 is pivoted at 18 and the arm21 is pivoted the vertical stemcally inside the stem on the guides 26.This block is pivoted at 19 to arm 16 and at 25 to arm 22. It will beobserved from this construction that as the block 20 is raised the armsexpand and form the rectangle as in Fig. 1 and when this block islowerechthe arms are collapsed to form. the sides of the stem. Theextent to whichjthe armsare expanded may be regulated by varying the at24 to'the top of i A block 20 slides vertiheight to which the block 20is raised. Stops 75 may be used v as at 26a to support block 20:

cleat so that the wires cannot get out of alignment at the joints. Thearms may be rabbeted, as'indi'cated in Fig. 3, where desired, to afl ordbetter protection for the antenna wires.

The vertical stem 11 through the base 12 is supported by the stand 13which may be mounted on castors and this stand may house a radio set asindicated at 14:.

' The lamp bulbs 35and 36 are securedto the top of the stem. The guides26, it will be noted from Fig. 3 are hollow forming a conduit for thewires for the lights.

The lampshade or canopy as shown. is con structed from a wire frame 37secured to the vertical stem according to well established constructionand is covered by silk or transparent material 40. On the vertical axisof this shade vertical bars 38 arise above the shade and support theinverted conical reflector 39 in the centre of the ring 46. It will benoted that this provides a vertical annular space in the centre of andabove the lamp shade which may be enclosed with some material which willkeep out the dust but Will permit the passage of sound.

One form of loud speaker unit is shown in Fig. 1. This comprises thediaphragm 41 supported at its edges in the annular ring 42 which bybrackets 43 is secured to the vertical stem. The centre of the diaphragmby connection 45 is operated by the loud speaker unit 44. In theconstruction shown in Fig. 4, the loud speaker unit 44 is located at thebase of the horn 47 and the orifice of this horn is immediately belowthe inverted conical reflector 39 and in this respect is similar to thelocation of the diaphragm 41 under the cone 39 in Fig. 1.

The inverted cone is preferably, a reflector of both light and sound sothat the sound produced by the loud speaker is reflected in an annularhorizontal plane and part of the light, as indicated by the dotted linesa, Fig. 1 is also reflected in the same manner, thus producing a haloaround the top of the lamp. It will be noted that in this case the lightis reflected from a curved sur- 1 face producing the effects of thespectrum with attractive lighting effects.

The device is constructed as far as possible from non-metallic materialsso as to avoid inductive disturbances in the operation a of the radioapparatus.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:

1. In combination, a vertical stem supported on a portable base, asource of light and a shade for said light supported by said stem, asound emitting device comprising a cone shaped diaphragm in the axialcentre of said shade supported by said stem and an opposing cone shapedreflector placed above said diaphragm to reflect sound in an annularhorizontal plane.

2. In combination, a vertical stem supported on a portable base, asource of light and a shade for said light supported by said stem, asound emitting device comprising a cone shaped diaphragm in the axialcentre of said shade supported by said stem and a reflector placed abovesaid diaphragm to reflect sound and light in a horizontal plane.

In testimony whereof we ailiX our signatures.

MATTHEW H. LOUGHRIDGE.

JOHN S. HOLLIDAY,

Deceased. By JENNZE MARGARET HOLLIDAY,

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